Online resources

The internet is a mine of information, not all of it particularly helpful.

To save you trawling through the masses of information, here is a few of the most renowned and less familiar resources to get that extra insight and information your peers may miss.

Market reports and industry news

Mintel
Mintel provides a global insight into consumer behaviour, product innovation and competitive marketing strategies. The site contains high quality data, meaningful analysis, actionable recommendations, while giving fresh marketplace insight. This resource does come at a cost but is usually provided for free through your university online library resources.
Go to Mintel website

Freedonia
This is an international business research resource, providing unbiased industry analysis including product and market forecasts, industry trends, threats and opportunities, competitive strategies, market share determinations and company profiles.
Go to Freedonia website

Trend Watching
Here one of the world's leading trend firms scans the globe for emerging consumer trends.
Go to Trend Watching website

The Die Line
The Die Line is dedicated to the progress of the package design industry and its practitioners, students and enthusiasts. Its purpose is to define and promote the world’s best examples of packaging, and provide a place where the package design community can review, critique and stay informed of the latest industry trends.
Go to The Die Line website

Economics, strategy and management resources

Centre for Economic Policy Research
This is a UK based publicly funded research body which studies a wide range of economic and financial topics.
Go to Centre for Economic Policy Research website

Harvard Business Blogs
This collection of interesting blogs from business thinkers and leaders at the Harvard Business School covers topical areas such as recruitment, brands, marketing, global management and innovation.
Go to Harvard Business blogs

Journal of Macro Economics and Journal of Theoretical Economics
The Journal of Macro Economics is one of the best-known journals in theoretical and applied macroeconomics, covering pressing problems such as unemployment, inflation, poverty, growth, and globalisation. The Journal of Theoretical Economics has also become renowned for top-notch economic theory, both pure and applied, exploring contract theory, decision theory, game theory, general equilibrium theory and public finance. Both of which are edited by distinguished and internally renowned researchers.

Go to:
Journal of Macro Economics website
Journal of Theoretical Economics website

McKinsey Quarterly
This is the business journal of McKinsey & Company, offering new ways of thinking about management in the private, public, and nonprofit sectors. This site offers practical ideas based on their experience with the world's largest companies and close ties to academic institutions. Free registration gives readers Web access to hundreds of articles and to an array of newsletters and topical alerts.
Go to McKinsey Quarterly website

The Adam Smith Institute
The Adam Smith Institute is a leading UK economic and public policy think tank. Its approach seeks to promote free market forces and competition, providing full text access to some highly useful resources for any economics-based module.
Go to The Adam Smith Institute

Value Based Management.net
This management portal is specifically aimed at the information needs of students and senior executives. Learning materials provided help explain management methods, models and theories on areas including strategy, finance, change, corporate governance, marketing and leadership with links to additional resources in the field. It is a great place to start research and gain initial understanding as the material is presented in a clear and easy to process format.
Go to Value Based Management website

Other online resources

CBS Money Watch
This website gives you access to an extensive business library holding case studies, research and articles, while also providing success tips from global business leaders.
Go to CBS Money Watch website

Survey Monkey
SurveyMonkey is a simple way to help anyone create professional online surveys quickly and easily. This is great for any market research helping you design your survey, collect and analyse your responses all from your laptop.
Go to Survey Monkey website

Wikipedia
This is a multilingual, web-based, free-content encyclopedia project. Some institutions or teachers may not still accept it as a worthy academic reference source, but even so it is a great place to start to get an understanding of the topic area at hand.
Go to Wikipedia website

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E-journals

Google Scholar and Google Books
Google Scholar is a highly popular web search engine that indexes the full text of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats.

Google Books searches the full text of books that Google scans and converts to text. Some publications have viewing limits and restrictions which does detract from the value of the resource.

Go to Google Scholar website
Go to Google Books website

Available via many university library facilities

Although many of these journals are not freely available online, most universities should be able to provide free access for you.

EBSCO
Business Source Premier (EBSCO) is a full text business database, covering management, economics, finance, accounting and international business.
Go to EBSCO website

Ebrary
Ebrary aims to provide the most cost-effective and efficient way for students to acquire and distribute important information covering handbooks, e-books, manuals, reports and other authoritative documents.
Go to Ebrary website

Emerald
Emerald is a fantastic business resource as it prides itself on information you can use, helping it become the world’s leading scholarly publisher in business and management. It is a truly international resource with authors, editors, advisers, reviewers and customers drawn from around the world.
Go to Emerald website

JSTOR
JSTOR provides an archive of electronic journals covering a broad range of projects in all subject disciplines, many going back to the 1850s.
Go to JSTOR website

ProQuest
ProQuest is a global leader in serving libraries of all types, creating specialized information resources and technologies aiming to propel successful research, discovery, and learning. It offers billions of pages that include historical newspapers, dissertations, and uniquely relevant resources for researchers of any age and sophistication.
Go to ProQuest website

Wiley
Wiley-Blackwell, serves the world's research and scholarly communities, and is the largest publisher for professional and scholarly societies. It encompasses journals, books, major reference works, databases, and laboratory manuals.
Go to Wiley website

Science Direct
Science Direct is the world’s leading full-text scientific database. There are currently more than 9.5 million articles/ chapters, with topics covering all the traditional and social sciences including business management.
Go to Science Direct website

WARC - World Advertising Research Center
WARC is a premier provider of information and insight to the global marketing, advertising, media and research industries. WARC’s internet service is the world's largest single source of marketing insight, while its publications and conferences have strong reputations established over many years.
Go to WARC website